Monitoring religious fraud for almost 30 years.

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Trinity Foundation, Inc., a public non-profit based in Dallas, Texas, has been tracking religious fraud and helping victims for almost 30 years.

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The Problem

The Problem of Religious Fraud

Trinity Foundation's original mission was to creatively explore multiple media to communicate the message of the cross of Christ. But we found there was an obstacle that was keeping many people from hearing the true gospel.

Professor tells why IRS is leaving churches alone

Religion News Service’s Mark Silk, Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, explains why the IRS is leaving churches alone for now… and this includes the fakes as well, as far as we can tell !

Why We Investigate

• Trinity Foundation is sometimes criticized for investigating religious fraud. Some say our investigations are an attack on Christianity itself. Nothing could be further from the truth.Read more here

Senate Finance Committee

In 2007 we began furnishing the committee information for its investigation into televangelists' finances and tax-exempt status. We were disappointed when, in 2011, the chairman Sen. Charles Grassley made recommendations that didn’t include any new legislation.

Media Investigations

A sample of the investigations we have participated in and other findings on religious fraud.

Offshore Tax Havens?

The state of Delaware provides the least transparency and the most secrecy for creating shell corporations, according to the New York Times. And the televangelists have taken notice.

Way back in 2005, Creflo Dollar’s ‘blab-it-grab-it’ mentor, Kenneth Copeland, convinced quite a few donors to contribute to his ministry’s purchase of the world’s then-fastest private jet, the Cessna Citation […]

Wichita news anchor Gloria Balding brings us a report about St Matthews Churches. The Trinity Foundation has been investigating Gene Ewing (“God’s Ghost Writer”) and his mail solicitation business for […]

Photo taken from Kenneth Copeland Ministries blog site [1] and from Catch the Fire, Revival Magazine, “Unity in Diversity”, Left to right—Carol and John Arnott, Rev Brian Stiller, Kenneth Copeland, […]